New Review of My Red Demolition

Empty Sink Publishing (The magazine for intellectual deviants) has republished a review by A.J. Huffman of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press 2014).

The idea of fear takes a different turn in the later poems. The speaker, while still disjointed and thrashing about in a bloody miasma of poisonous memories, seems to take on a more clinical calm, begins to dissect the mess she has become. “It starts with a multi-colored glitter dress lifted up high/to show thighs wrapped with garter belts made out of garter/snakes.” This opening image from “Love Can Be a Chokecherry” sets the perfect, if overtly biblical, stage for the subtle undercurrent of fear that echoes through the remainder of this collection: that she let this happen. The fear of responsibility is palpable: “She knows another nightmare is coming.” 

Read the rest HERE - http://emptysinkpublishing.com/book-reviews/book-review-red-demolition-by-juliet-cook/

Acquire the chapbook from Shirt Pocket Press HERE - https://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/

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NEW! My Poem in A Fistful of Razors!

"While drinking a Bloody Mary, I think I almost died.
Is that puke, blood, or did I just spill
my glass before I passed out?
All I know is when I woke up,
the whole floor was covered in red
and I was alive again, but forever haunted."

from my poem, "Why I Dye My Hair Red", which appears in A Fistful of Razors (10 Poets)

read more here - http://wishpoetrypress.com/…/…/a-fistful-of-razors-10-poets/

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This poem of mine also lives in my latest chapbook, RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014) and you can get a copy from my etsy shop here -

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Or directly from the press that published it here - 

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Another New Review of my RED DEMOLITION

"If Juliet Cook is the wicked queen of all things dead, undead and twisted —which, OMG, she is— she most certainly is a master at writing chapbooks!"

From a new review by Susan Yount of my newest poetry chapbook,  RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014). 

Read the rest here:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1056795018?fb_action_ids=10152730312202458&fb_action_types=og.likes

I have a new poetry chapbook!

Below is one poem among the 14 poems within my new poetry chapbook, RED DEMOLITION, published by Shirt Pocket Press.

How Many Holes Can You Handle?

1.

Too many holes might turn you

into a black lagoon with poison

swimming inside you. What if he tells you

he’s thinking about your tits,

you in a witch hat, going down

into a lake that keeps sinking?

2.

At the bottom, pearl sacs rip open,

blisters burst under the tongue. A blustering

blastosphere spell of passion might shoot out

of the water at a breakneck pace, but oddly twisted.

It will rip flesh off the bottom of your legs.

3.

You’re a waitress dress with skull legs affixed.

Red spiders crawl up and down your thighs.

Half and half, slightly sweetened coffee

or black?  Is it sugar or poison drip drip

dripping out your eyes? Is it an iris

or a multicolored wormhole?

If you wish to read more, you can purchase the chapbook for a mere 6 bucks here - http://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/